| Tom Chris Korologos | |
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| United States Ambassador to Belgium | |
| In office July 14, 2004 – 2007 |
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| President | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Stephen Brauer |
| Succeeded by | Sam Fox |
| Personal details | |
| Born | April 6, 1933 Salt Lake City, Utah |
| Profession | Lobbyist |
Tom Chris Korologos, (born April 6, 1933 in Salt Lake City, Utah), is a past United States Ambassador to Belgium.
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A second generation Greek American, Tom has family origins from Tyros, Arcadia, and Greece. His parents Chris T. Korologos and Irene M. Kolendrianos, are both immigrants from Arcadia, in the Peloponnese region. His father was a bartender in Utah.
Korologos started out as a journalist with The Salt Lake Tribune. Later he worked for the New York Herald Tribune, the Long Island Press, and the Associated Press. He was a U.S. Air Force officer from 1956 to 1957. He earned his B.A. degree at the University of Utah in 1956, and a M.S. degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1958 where he received the Grantland Rice Fellowship and a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship.
From 1962 to 1971 he worked for U.S. Senator Wallace F. Bennett of Utah. He served in the Nixon and Ford presidential administrations from 1971 to 1975, and has worked closely with Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush. He was co-founder of Timmons & Company, a Washington, DC consulting firm. He has been involved in more than 300 U.S. Senate confirmations including assisting Vice President Rockefeller, Vice President Ford, Supreme Court Justices: William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia, and nominee Robert Bork, as well as several cabinet secretaries, including: Henry Kissinger, Alexander Haig, and Donald Rumsfeld.
Korologos has had a wide and varied Washington, DC experience. He has served as a senior staff member in the U.S. Congress, as an assistant to two Presidents in the White House, was a prominent businessman, and most recently was a senior counselor with the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Baghdad. In addition, he was a long-time member of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy and a charter member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors that has jurisdiction over all non-military U.S. Government radio and TV broadcasting overseas. He currently is strategic advisor at DLA Piper in Washington, DC.
Korologos was married to Joy G. Korologos, the couple had three children, Paula, Ann and Philip. Paula Lisbe, one of their daughters, is an actress. Joy died from melanoma in 1997. Tom re-married, to Ann McLaughlin Korologos, who was Secretary of Labor in the Reagan administration who serves on the boards of several major companies. Tom is an avid, and professional photographer who is represented by the Ann Korologos Gallery in Basalt, CO.